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Vor 4 Tagen · Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
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Vor 4 Tagen · The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of four countries: the Netherlands itself, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. Each of these countries has its own unique characteristics and relationship with the Kingdom. Do the Dutch prefer Holland or the Netherlands?
Vor 5 Tagen · The form Duutsc was borrowed into English and gives modern “Dutch.” The official name of the language is Nederlands, or Netherlandic. In the Netherlands it is also called Hollands (Hollandish), reflecting the fact that the standard language is based largely on the dialect of the old province of Holland (now North Holland and South Holland).
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- The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three offic...
- Dutch is the language of most of the Netherlands, of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France along the North Sea. Dutch is also used as the...
- The Dutch language derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea...
Vor 4 Tagen · Amsterdam, city and port, western Netherlands, located on the IJsselmeer and connected to the North Sea. It is the capital and the principal commercial and financial centre of the Netherlands.
- Amsterdam is a city and port in the Netherlands. It is the country’s capital and its principal commercial and financial centre.
- Amsterdam is located in western Netherlands on the IJsselmeer and is connected to the North Sea. Parts of the city lie below sea level, some parts...
- To the scores of tourists who visit each year, Amsterdam is known for its historical attractions, for its collections of great art, and for the dis...
- In an Allied operation led by Canadian forces, Amsterdam was liberated from the Nazis on May 5, 1945. This freed the entire Netherlands from Nazi c...
- Today Amsterdam’s canals are used mostly for transportation and pleasure cruises. During the Middle Ages the canals were built for defense and wate...
Vor 2 Tagen · As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered an alpha world city. The city is the cultural capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters in the city.
Welcome to /r/Netherlands! Only English should be used for posts and comments. This rule is in place to ensure that an ample audience can freely discuss life in the Netherlands under a widely-spoken common tongue.
Vor 2 Tagen · Dutch Population size, structure, and development in graphs and text. number of inhabitants by age and sex, births, deaths, migratiion, marriages, divorces, households
